A career in our Managed Services team will provide you an opportunity to collaborate with a wide array of teams to help our clients implement and operate new capabilities, achieve operational efficiencies, and harness the power of technology. Our Guidewire Application Evolution Services team will provide you with the opportunity to help organizations harness the power of their enterprise applications by optimizing the technology while driving transformation and innovation to increase business performance. We assist our clients in capitalizing on technology improvements, implementing new capabilities and achieving operational efficiencies by managing and maintaining their application ecosystems. We help our clients maximize the value of their Guidewire investment by managing the support and continuous transformation of their solutions in the areas of insurance solutions such as Policy Center, Billing Center and Claim Center as well as Guidewire analytics and data solutions.
To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Senior Associate, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.

MINIMUM YEARS OF EXPERIENCE:

5 year(s)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Preferred Knowledge/Skills:

Demonstrates thorough abilities and/or a proven record of success as a team leader:

• Solutioning the Guidewire Suite of applications on premises and SaaS, proven success selling, executing and leading all aspects of complex engagements within the Guidewire product suite achieving on-time and on-budget delivery;
• Providing solution strategy and Application Evolution Services (AES, formerly AMS) delivery as a Guidewire Solution Architect. Employees in the Solution Architect position should think of themselves and be regarded by the client as a trusted advisor and think strategically about how to create value using the Guidewire Suite of products;
• Delivering Guidewire application solutions as it will be critical that Managers in this position are capable of navigating both business processes as well as enterprise solution perspectives at high level and holistic view;
• Developing a scalable and robust Guidewire Solution Strategies in a hybrid IT landscape (on premises and Cloud);
• Developing independently new market-differentiated Guidewire solutions and leading proposal development efforts; Managers in these positions should be capable of delivering Advisory-level work and be able to discuss future enhancements in Guidewire roadmap discussions with the client;
• Focusing on AES, demonstrates advanced abilities assisting clients in the support of Guidewire Suite solutions and improving business processes; and taking a proactive approach to quality;
• Developing solutions based on common issues facing clients in all lines of the P&C Industries (e.g., Auto, Home, Commercial, Workman’s Comp, etc.);
• Identifying and addressing client needs by: Developing and sustaining impactful client relationships using networking, negotiation and persuasion skills to identify and sell potential new service opportunities; Preparing and presenting complex written and verbal materials; and, Defining resource requirements, project workflow, budgets, billing and collection;
• Leading global teams to generate a vision, establishing direction and motivating members, creating a community of high performing professional consultants, creating an atmosphere of trust, leveraging diverse views, coaching staff, and encouraging improvement and innovation;
• Being held accountable for a team of resources from both a utilization and learning perspective;
• Mentoring and helping to upskill junior resources will be critical in this role;
• Developing strategy as well as writing, communicating, facilitating, and presenting cogently to and/or for all levels of industry audiences, clients and internal staff and management, such as presentation slides, practice marketing materials, change management plans and/or project plans, workshops and whitepapers, practice, methodologies and tools, policies and procedures, and/or other standard business communications;
• Being comfortable, thrive, and available during sustained period of time of instability with client’s Guidewire solution and escalations; and,
• Acting as a key contributor and thought leader internally and externally with white papers, blogs, and training.

Demonstrates thorough abilities and/or a proven record of success as a team leader utilizing the following:

• Guidewire PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, ClaimCenter and ContactManager, including leading related project teams;
• GOSU, Guidewire Event and Rules Framework and object oriented programming;
• JAVA scriptwriting, emphasizing hosting and consuming web services that leverage Java;
• Web service hosting and consuming, using Guidewire studio toolkits;
• XML Coding; and,
• ANT, MAVEN and code repository such as Clear Case, SVN, TFS.

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• Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct